Monday, June 15, 2009

Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

__________ is a song from the musical Les Misérables. It is sung as a solo by the character Fantine during the first act. The music is by Claude-Michel Schönberg and the English lyrics are by Herbert Kretzmer, based on the original French libretto by Alain Boublil. The song has been translated into twenty-one languages, including Japanese, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Castilian, and Estonian, and there have been 31 cast recordings featuring the song. It was downloaded to such a degree that the song entered music charts in the U.S. Billboard magazine's Hot Digital Songs and Hot Singles Recurrent.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

The etymology of X goes thus. In the olden days, the ladies used to carry around their money and valuables in small self created knots in their sarees. The thieves therefore had to be experts at looting the stuff thus secured. What popular term does this give rise to?